User:KAVEBEAR/Eveline Townsend Wilson

Evelyn or Eveline Melita Kilioulani Kaopaokalani Townsend Wilson,[1] known commonly as Kitty (c. 1849 – May 21, 1898) was a lady-in-waiting of Queen Liliuokalani during her imprisonment in Iolani Palace and the mother of three-time Honolulu mayor John H. Wilson.

Life

Born in 1849, Eveline was of mixed Native Hawaiian and English descent, known as a hapa haole in Hawaiian. Her parents were John F. Townsend, an itinerant English performed in Honolulu, and Harriet Blanchard, the part-Hawaiian daughter of American sea captain Henry Blanchard and Molokai chiefess Koloa. Her grandfather Captain Blanchard commanded of the brig Thaddeus which brought the first company American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) missionaries in 1820. These missionaries and the subsequent companies which followed them would converted the Kingdom of Hawaii to Christianity. Her father abandoned the family and fled to Victoria, after a failed business venture, and her mother raised Eveline and her younger brother George by herself.[2][3]

At a young age, Eveline first caught the attention of the future queen Liliuokalani while singing in the Kawaiahaʻo Church choir led by Liliuokalani. This was reportedly because the theatrical Eveline would make motion while she sang from the choir loft. She subsequently became her protège and a household retainer and developed a close friendship with her mistress. Considered one of the most beautiful woman of the Kingdom, Eveline and Mary Bush had the honors of greeting the Duke of Edinburgh at a traditional luau held at Liliuokalani's private residence at Waikiki during his 1869 visit to Hawaii aboard the Galatea.[2]

Eveline



  • "Mrs. C. B. Wilson". The Hawaiian Gazette. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. May 24, 1898. Retrieved November 6, 2016 – via Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
    • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1898-05-23/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=5%2F19%2F1898&index=6&date2=5%2F30%2F1898&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Townsend&proxdistance=5&state=Hawaii&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Townsend&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1
  • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047097/1898-05-21/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=5%2F19%2F1898&index=0&date2=5%2F30%2F1898&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Eveline&proxdistance=5&state=Hawaii&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Eveline&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1
  • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016413/1898-05-27/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=5%2F19%2F1898&index=3&date2=5%2F30%2F1898&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Evelyn&proxdistance=5&state=Hawaii&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Evelyn&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1 She died of Peritonitis
  • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047097/1898-05-21/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=5%2F21%2F1898&index=0&date2=5%2F28%2F1898&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Wilson+WILSON&proxdistance=5&state=Hawaii&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Wilson&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1
  • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016413/1898-05-21/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=5%2F21%2F1898&index=4&date2=5%2F28%2F1898&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Wilson&proxdistance=5&state=Hawaii&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Wilson&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1

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References

  1. ^ Imada 2012, pp. 116–.
  2. ^ a b c Krauss 1994, pp. 7–11.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Death was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Bibliography

  • Allen, Helena G. (1982). The Betrayal of Liliuokalani: Last Queen of Hawaii, 1838–1917. Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark Company. ISBN 978-0-87062-144-4. OCLC 9576325.
  • Iaukea, Sydney L. (2011). The Queen and I: A Story of Dispossessions and Reconnections in Hawai'i. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-95030-6. OCLC 763161035.
  • Kuykendall, Ralph Simpson (1967). The Hawaiian Kingdom 1874–1893, The Kalakaua Dynasty. Vol. 3. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-87022-433-1. OCLC 500374815.
  • Liliuokalani (1898). Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, Liliuokalani. Boston: Lee and Shepard. ISBN 978-0-548-22265-2. OCLC 2387226.
  • Krauss, Bob (1994). Johnny Wilson: First Hawaiian Democrat. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 7–11. ISBN 978-0-8248-1577-6. OCLC 30398759.
  • Imada, Adria L. (2012). Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-0-8223-5207-5. OCLC 769871251.
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